[CFRG] Re: Random-access authenticated encryption (raAE) draft

[Nick Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

Dear CFRG,

Writing as an author, not a chair, and following up on this thread
from July. Since then independent implementations have started, and I
still owe some answers to Nico, Ilari and Martin. I propose moving the
discussion to its own list.

On 28 September 2026 the Security Area Directors approved
[e-mail], a non-working-group list that John Mattsson and I
administer, for random-access authenticated encryption and the SEAL
construction in draft-sullivan-cfrg-raae: the security notions,
implementation and interop experience, and the use cases. Until now
that discussion has been scattered across this list and private
threads. The full update, including those answers and the question of
whether this heads toward a working group, is posted there rather than
here.

Subscribe: https://mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lists/raae.ietf.org/
Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/raae/

Please take follow-ups on raAE and SEAL, including implementation
questions, to the new list. There will also be a side meeting at IETF
127 in San Francisco, 14 to 20 November 2026; details will go to the
new list once rooms open.

Best,
Nick